Beauvoir & V. in a C/c atholic Man's World

[alice wellintown]

Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed. Language will eventually catch up with the changes of the last
> couple centuries. Or not.

this seems to suggest that the last couple of centuries of change are
something language either needs to chase after or is something
language can not catch. or is it a catch 22?  the second sex, like the
education, like the white goddess, like the golden bough...quests that
cast a huge net, are confessions of lost faith. one suspects that this
has something to do with stencil.